Editing Sergiyev Posad (section)

==History==
{{stack|[[File:Троице-Сергиева лавра 2015.jpg|thumb|[[Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius]] in Sergiyev Posad]]}}
Sergiyev Posad is the religious center of the [[Moscow Oblast|Moscow Region]] as its first monastery was founded in 1337.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sergiyev Posad |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Sergiyev-Posad |website=Britannica}}</ref>
The monastery began as a church built by Sergius of Radonezh, made out of wood, and by 1345 was recognized as a place of religious worship.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sergiev Posad History |url=https://rusmania.com/central/moscow-region/sergiev-posad/history}}</ref> Town status was granted to Sergiyev Posad in 1742.{{citation needed|date=April 2010}} In the 16th and 17th centuries, the religious center continued expanding into new monastery buildings, living areas, and stone walls, which withheld a [[Siege of Troitsky monastery|Polish siege]] from 1608 to 1610.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Trinity Sergius Lavra |url=https://www.advantour.com/russia/sergiev-posad/history-of-trinity-sergius-lavra.htm}}</ref> In the 18th century, wooden monasteries were mostly destroyed and began reconstruction and settlement (roads, hotels, stable, and hospice).<ref>{{cite web |title=Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/657/}}</ref>

Lavra was closed in 1919 after the [[Russian Revolution]], like all other places of worship in the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Attractions of Sergiev Posad |url=https://anotherrussia.com/moscow/attractions/sergiev-posad}}</ref> The town's name, alluding to St.&nbsp;Sergius, has strong religious connotations. Soviet authorities changed it first to just ''Sergiyev'' in 1919 and then to ''Zagorsk'' in 1930 in memory of the revolutionary [[Vladimir Zagorsky]].<ref>
Compare: {{cite book
| editor1-last          = Ring
| editor1-first         = Trudy
| editor2-last          = Watson
| editor2-first         = Noelle
| editor3-last          = Schellinger
| editor3-first         = Paul
| year              = 1996
| chapter               = Sergiev (Moscow, Russia)
| title                 = Northern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places
| url                   = https://books.google.com/books?id=uWjYAQAAQBAJ
| publisher             = Routledge
| publication-date      = 2013
| isbn                  = 9781136639517
| access-date            = 2015-08-08
| quote                 = Lenin's successor Stalin intensified religious persecution in the Soviet Union overall, and the situation perhaps became threatening enough to warrant the town to change its name in 1930 to Zagorsk, derived from the name of the Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Zagorsky, who was assassinated by rival socialists in 1919.}}</ref>

Sergiyev Posad was invaded by Germany in 1941{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} but reopened later that year during the [[Second World War]], and continued to serve as a religious and historical center of Russia.{{cn|date=February 2023}}

The original name was restored in 1991.{{citation needed|date=April 2010}}